Starna Scientific has introduced the Starna Optical Polishing Cloth (OPC) to help lab technicians maintain the quality of a cuvette's optical faces without fear of scratching or damaging the surface.
To enable precision spectrophotometry applications to produce highly accurate results there is a constant requirement to keep the optical faces of a cuvette clean and in a pristine condition at all times.
Even the most basic of UV-visible spectrophotometers are quite capable of measuring differences caused by micro-scratches, surface contamination and so on that are invisible to the naked eye.
For this reason, the inappropriate use of lens tissues, and/or abrasive or caustic cleaning agents will cause progressive chronic degradation, which modern instruments are quite capable of compensating for, long after the cuvette should have been discarded.
